Alana Saulnier
Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair
College of Social and Applied Human Sciences, Criminal Justice and Public Policy, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Research Areas
- Policing and technology
- Evidence-based policing
- Evidence-based crime policy
- Victim sensitive practices
- Community-police relations
- Restorative justice
- Experimental criminology
About
Alana Saulnier (PhD) is an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in crime, technology, and public policy in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Guelph.
Dr. Saulnier has demonstrated a strong commitment to furthering the evidence-based policing movement, particularly in relation to police use of technologies and community-police relations. She has held research partnerships with over 30 Canadian police services and regularly partners with police services and other community partners to conduct applied research.
She also consistently translates research into outputs appropriate for practitioners and lay audiences. After conducting extensive research on body-worn cameras (BWC), she partnered with the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police to produce a BWC policy template that promoted consistency in police use of BWCs across the country as well as victim-sensitive practices. Her research is routinely published in high-quality, peer-reviewed journals including Policing & Society, the Journal of Experimental Criminology, and Criminology & Public Policy.
Education
- Doctor of Philosophy (Sociology)
Queen’s University, Kingston, ON
2016 - Master of Arts (Criminology)
University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, ON
2012
Opportunities for Students
Dr. Saulnier is eager to supervise undergraduate and graduate students interested in the research areas described above as well as topics tangentially related to these areas.